The souls of past lovers will be lighting up Geelong for one last waltz of passion. Award winning pianist and composer performs a live improvised based programmatic composition for classical piano and shadows.
Big Word of Mouth is storytelling at its best, with no notes, no props and nothing to hide behind. But someone is not telling the truth and it’s up to the audience to find out which Big Mouth has their ‘pants on fire’. A heartwarming and fun story slam.
Presents: The Secret City
This promenade street performance shines a light into the hidden world of culturally diverse Geelong. Take a fun journey along dark alleyways into the lives of young people of colour in Geelong who are grappling with who they are, who they want to be and what it really means to assimilate.
Photographer: Nicola Dracoulis
Electric Light Orchestra are a rock band Formed in 1970. Their music is characterised by a fusion of Pop, Classical and Futuristic soundscapes, great tracks include:Don’t Bring Me Down-Turn To Stone-Mr Blue Sky and Xanadu - Come learn 1970 dance moves The Hustle, The Bus Stop The Bump and The funky chicken and on the hour we perform a MASS ELO DANCE PARTY
Follow Havana Palava on an adventure through the streets at Geelong After Dark and be introduced to some more of the fabulous street bands of Victoria. If you like what you see and hear please join us for a Fiesta in the West Park, Geelong West tomorrow Sat May 6 at 11am for a free community parade and fiesta!
Spoken word artist Nicole McKenzie explores the sound of light through performance poetry. Is grief blaring ambulance lights or a barely there dull blue globe? Is love fairy lights jumping or the only street light in a deserted town?
Nicole uses light as a tool, a metaphor, an explanation.
Harpist Christine Middleton plays her own composition on a beautiful glowing gothic harp. Be prepared to travel on a meditative journey through sound and light.
Connecting Song is an initiative to support unsigned acts by teaming them with mentors to write a song inspired by a place on the 80km Mountain to Mouth arts walk. Their songs have been recorded and the video clips created which will debut at Geelong After Dark. The mentors are Geelong’s best in the business: Adalita (of Magic Dirt fame), hip hop artist Trem One and highly respected musician Tim Neal.
*Adult Content: Entry 18 years+
Mobile Projector Bike – site responsive live light painting with musical accompaniment... and you can join in! Come and paint the walls of your city! Look out and listen out for the sight and sounds of Projector Bike in and around zones 1 & 2!
Join the Urban Upcycle team at Market Square to make your very own tea light lantern using recycled materials, to light up your path at Geelong After Dark.
An installation by artists Sean Loughrey and Anne Scott Wilson, aimed to entice the senses in a theatrically staged, thunderous light show. The project features performances by the Geelong Harmony Choir “singing the storm”. The ames Street Bakery becomes a stage for a multi-media artwork and live performance in an event for all.
2 x 15min acts at 7.30pm and 8.30pm
An intriguing and evocative immersion in sound and imagery celebrating and honouring our interconnectedness with Earth. Featuring the unique sound of Sandy Dickinson’s Handpan, Stephen Oakes’ Indian Harmonium and Lisa Singline’s sublime vocals – the “sound of earth and light” performance by Aïr-thereal draws inspiration from the natural world.
Haze Cube is a marriage of sound and light and a unification of the senses. Oscillating tones will materialise in shimmering patterns inside a luminescent cube whilst sound stimulates light in a continuous exchange. The visual will transform in perfect synchronicity with the music as dancing visuals appear in front of your eyes.
Primordial Rhythm, a new work from Michael Morgan, Alex Hornford and Marita Batna (as curator) is a sculpture that delivers sound through the palette of frequencies for tactile, visual and aural perception and interaction in real time. Since all material forms have sound properties – vibrational frequencies that link with colour of different spectrum and intensities – Primordial Rhythm invites you to explore and synchronise with the range of harmonics of nature. When people and things are matched with their natural frequency it creates harmony.
Create your own 80s dance floor hit! Enter an invisible light field of infrared beams and move your body to control synthesisers, fat beats, and robotic lighting in real time.
Powered by custom software written specifically for Geelong After Dark, the experience combines virtual reality technology with music control software and theatrical lighting systems.
Photographic images of the You Yangs taken throughout various times of day to reveal a dynamic and vivid spectrum of colours, creating a visual perspective whilst environmental recordings form the basis of the soundscape. Sounds representing and responding to the landscape colours and a score based on the silhouette of the Mount, are superimposed to reveal an emotional and yet informative connection to the landscape.
Photographer: Ferne Millen
Steve Thew is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist from Geelong in Victoria Australia. With his versatile vocal range and masterful skill on the acoustic guitar, banjo, harmonica and piano. Steve is a true blue Aussie entertainer, capable of capturing the hearts and minds of his audience in a way that only a truly humble and seasoned performer can.
Discover Geelong After Dark through The Amazing Arts Adventure. Children will love this fun and interactive journey of discovery through central Geelong. Complete all tasks and go into the draw for some amazing prizes!
Sound and Light Relaxation Space is an interactive art piece where large glowing Mandalas are paired with peaceful sounds and music to create a calming art experience.
The viewer will be taken out of the everyday world into a fully immersive place of zen and relaxation.
